Chapter 785

The baby in the woman's arms suddenly began wailing, and the group of fugitives making their way through the forest froze in place.

"Don't let your little brat make a sound! What are we supposed to do if it attracts those hairy beasts?" someone snarled in a low voice from the crowd.

The woman trembled and hurriedly rocked the child in her arms, soothing it in a soft voice.

"Ah—look!"

The cry of alarm startled everyone badly. They thought pursuers had come to arrest them.

When they followed the alarmed person's gaze and saw what was in the forest, the fear in their hearts was replaced by fury.

More than a dozen corpses hung from the branches, swaying in the wind. They were obviously the bodies of people who had fled earlier.

"Those beasts!" the refugees cursed under their breath, afraid to raise their voices. All they could do was choke back their rage.

Ever since the Grassland Orcish had occupied the Yellow Earth Land in Aldo's Northeast Region, people had begun leaving their homes one after another, fleeing west or south toward the human lands that had not yet fallen. At first, there had only been scattered refugees. Most of the people living in this land had no idea what the arrival of a Foreign Race meant. Besides, their lord was Grand Duke Bradley, and those barbarians from the grasslands had been invited by him to help resist the Kingdom Army's tyranny. A saying had long circulated throughout the Yellow Earth Land: all the taxes collected by the grand duke were supplied to the Kingdom Army stationed at Watchman Fortress, and it was precisely the Kingdom Army's insatiable demands that had plunged the people here into poverty.

Although the orcs looked ferocious, they would surely show some consideration for